The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/02 at 23:00 EST

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/02 at 23:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Prime Minister Mark Carney faces a tough political test this week. He'll table his government's first budget on Tuesday. But because he has a minority in Parliament, he needs some opposition support to get it passed. And if that doesn't happen, it could mean a snap election. J.P. Tasker has more. Our budget will respond head on to the challenges of our time. Prime Minister Mark Carney is promising what he calls generational investments. Tuesday's federal budget is expected to include more money for the military, housing, and workers affected by U.S. tariffs,

but also cuts to rein in spending that ballooned under Carney's predecessor. This budget presents a politically perilous moment for the minority liberal government. If the opposition votes it down, Canadians could be headed back to the polls before Christmas. Conservative leader Pierre Pauliev has made a series of demands in exchange for his party's support. We want an affordable budget that will give Canadians affordable life before Christmas. Meanwhile, the Black Quebecois has demands of its own. The separatist MPs are voting no if they don't get what they want. That leaves the NDP to solve this political puzzle.

The small seven-member caucus hasn't decided what it will do. The Liberals need just three opposition votes to get the budget through. J.P. Tasker, CBC News, Ottawa. Voters across Quebec cast ballot Sunday in municipal elections, and the results are now being counted. CBC News projects that Soraya Martinez-Ferada will be the next mayor of Montreal. She'll succeed Valerie Plante, who decided not to run again. Martinez-Ferada is a former federal liberal cabinet minister who served as tourism minister until last winter. She was born in Chile and came to Canada as a refugee.

Meantime, Bruno Marchand will be re-elected mayor of Quebec City. Bravo and thank supporters at his victory rally in Quebec City tonight. CBC News also projects that Catherine Furnier will be re-elected mayor of Langei and Stefan Buehl will be re-elected as mayor of Laval. An avian flu outbreak is affecting seven commercial poultry farms in BC's Fraser Valley, and six of those cases were identified in the last couple of weeks. Caroline Bargut reports. When a farm is on lockdown, the birds are kept in barns and not allowed out.

Every vehicle that comes to the property must be disinfected. And every worker who interacts with the animals must wear protective equipment and change their clothes. That's because if avian flu is detected at a commercial poultry farm, every bird, infected or not, must be called. Last year, 81 farms in British Columbia reported infections. BC's chief veterinarian, Teresa Byrne, says the province could be on track to similar result. Based on what we saw in the prairies and what we're seeing in Washington, we would anticipate the infection pressure could be just as high as in the last years.

The province is currently studying whether air filtration in barns helps prevent the spread of the virus, with around 70 commercial farms taking part in the pilot project. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency estimates 8.8 million birds have died or been culled in B.C. in recent years. Caroline Bargut, CBC News, Vancouver. The Red Cross has handed over the apparent remains of three Israeli hostages to Israel. Under the current ceasefire deal, Hamas must return the bodies of all hostages who died in captivity. But the Palestinian militant group says it's having trouble locating them under rubble. The Red Cross has brought in excavating machines to help locate remains in Gaza. If the bodies are confirmed to be those Israeli

hostages, that would bring the total number of bodies recovered to 20. U.S. President Donald Trump gave a sit-down interview to 60 minutes tonight, and he was asked by the CBS News program if he would try to run for a third term in the White House. Can you set the record straight? You're not going to try and run for a third term? Well, I don't even think about it. I will tell you, a lot of people want me to run. Since 1951, the U.S. has had a constitutional amendment limiting presidents to two terms. And that is your world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.